Raise Your Game: Why Classroom Training Is Obsolete And A Waste Of Time

Jan 22, 2017 1 Min Read
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The training industry is evolving and the old ways of training delivery that worked the past 100 years has become obsolete. The traditional “classroom training” could very soon be “dead” one day.

Now, a big question arises for corporate education and training – how do we transform this space? And what should we do to reinvent training?

Roshan Thiran from Leaderonomics shares a very different approach to future learning. It includes the following:

  1. micro-learning
  2. technology-based learning
  3. “just-in-time” learning

 
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If you would like to find out more about our Leaderonomics Corporate Services to help your organisation accelerate further, email us at training@leaderonomics.com. To know more about what Leaderonomics do as a social enterprise, check out www.leaderonomics.org. For our other Raise Your Game podcasts, click here.

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Roshan is the Founder and “Kuli” of the Leaderonomics Group of companies. He believes that everyone can be a leader and "make a dent in the universe," in their own special ways. He is featured on TV, radio and numerous publications sharing the Science of Building Leaders and on leadership development. Follow him at www.roshanthiran.com

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